Example sentences of "it have [be] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the nature of a revelation but like all revelations , she thought , it has been just below the surface of my mind , lingering unrecognised , waiting , and now I see it and it is a familiar friend . |
| 2 | It had been just as he was leaving on a Sunday evening . |
| 3 | The sixth , published in 1752 and dedicated to the Earl of Northumberland , had an elaborate frontispiece ( hitherto it had been just a large formal garden with a plantation in the distance ) etched and engraved by Edward Rooker ( 1711–74 ) , after a drawing by Samuel Wade of an allegorical group showing Britannia receiving the fruits of the earth . |
| 4 | When local police were told of two female bodies on the beach , it had been just a nuisance . |
| 5 | ‘ We probably would n't have signed if it had been just SGI , ’ Ousley says . |
| 6 | But it had been just just a wee little village then . |
| 7 | It had been just after Christmas ; she had worn a new pair of fur mittens her sister had given her . |
| 8 | But it had been just a momentary longing for something she seemed destined never to have . |
| 9 | In the old days , it had been just poor . |
| 10 | But she knew it had been just an impulse — a ‘ strawberry kiss ’ , he 'd called it . |
| 11 | It had been just as much his fault . |
| 12 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 13 | The occupational structure of the village was very different from what it had been just before the Civil War when the parish register entries had briefly given men 's occupations ; between 1636 and 1639 Thurmaston 's register noted 8 labourers , 5 shepherds , 3 husbandmen , 2 innkeepers , 2 masons , 2 male servants , a carpenter , a miller , 1 curate , a weaver , a tailor , a shearman , a spinner and a mole catcher . |
| 14 | But , when , when they can but you 've ju i in the Empire if you , if you 've I do n't know actually , i before they before they messed about with all the raised seating and everything , if it had been just left open like the Old Floral Hall , like it was you 'd have got seventeen |
| 15 | You can tell she 's in a good mood from the number of bitchy remarks : from Glenys Kinnock 's dress sense ( ‘ Silly girl to be wearing Yves Saint Laurent ’ ) to the election campaign ( ‘ It 's been just like an American election : no ideas ’ ) to John Major 's now certain victory ( ‘ It 's conserved everything we 've stood for ’ — we , doubtless , in the sense of I ) . |
| 16 | Now , it 's been just the four months for me . |
| 17 | Previously it 's been just a blank sheet of printing paper shut up in a lightproof envelope ; now it has a function , an image , a certainty . |
| 18 | It 's been just trenches , tents and gymnasiums lately . ’ |
| 19 | It 's been just lying here . |